...Vedat Uygun; Gülsün Karasu; Koray Yalçın; Seda Öztürkmen; Hayriye Daloğlu; Safiye Suna Çelen; Volkan Hazar; Akif Yeşilipek Background: The use of unmanipulated haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (haplo-HSCT) with post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCY) in children has emerged...

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... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Central nervous system complications Children Acute graft-versus-host disease Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell...

...Meili Ge; Jun Shi; Xingxin Li; Yingqi Shao; Jinbo Huang; Zhendong Huang; Jing Zhang; Neng Nie; Yizhou Zheng Objective: Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare disease, especially in children. To characterize the clinical presentations and survival, we performed a retrospective analysis...

... transplantation (CBT) from unrelated donors to 24 children. In addition, 15 children who were recipients of a bone-marrow transplant (BMT) were studied concomitantly. The main objectives of the study were whether lymphocytes from CBT recipients were capable of rapid qualitative differentiation in the effector...

...Oula Abdullah Najim; Mea’ad Kadhum Hassan Objectives: This prospective study was carried out to assess lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) as a biochemical marker during acute painful episode and steady state in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). Design and Methods: A prospective descriptive study...

...Emmanouel S. Hatzipantelis; Miranda Athanassiou-Metaxa; Nikolaos Gombakis; Vaso Tzimouli; Anna Taparkou; Vasiliki Sidi-Fragandrea; Vasilia Garipidou; Theothotis Papageorgiou; Drosia Kleta; Dimitrios E. Koliouskas; Fani Athanasiadou-Piperopoulou The severe endothelial dysfunction in children...

...G. Hiçsönmez; K. Süzer; G. Süloglu; S. Dönmez Platelet count was evaluated in 30 children with iron deficiency anemia. It was found elevated when compared with 40 normal controls. No significant difference was found between the platelet counts in patients with hemoglobin levels higher or lower than...

...G. Hicsönmez; E. Dala; G. Erbengi Reticuloendothelial phagocytic capacity (REPC) was determined in 14 children with β -thalassemia major, by means of technetium 99m sulfur colloid uptake, who had not had splenectomy. No difference was observed in the REPC between patient and controls. The REPC...

...Y. Barak; A. Ma; N.A. Shore In 8 children with acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML), colony formation in soft agar cultures derived from bone marrow cells was studied in an attempt to differentiate the monocytic (Schilling) from the myelomonocytic (Naegeli) types. The children did not differ...

...F. Madanat; M. El-Khateeb; M. Tarawaneh; S. Hijazi The value of serum ferritin in assessing iron status was studied in 192 preschool age children between the ages of 3 and 60 months. Children were considered to have iron deficiency if the transferrin saturation was less than 16% and the peripheral...

... with newly diagnosed APL. In most pediatric series, APL represents ≤10% of childhood acute myelogenous leukemia. APL in children is more common in girls and in obese children. It is characterized by a higher incidence of hyperleukocytosis, an increased incidence of microgranular morphology and by more...

...Manuela Albisetti; Alexander Moeller; Katharina Waldvogel; Vera Bernet-Buettiker; Vincenzo Cannizzaro; Alexia Anagnostopoulos; Christian Balmer; Markus Schmugge Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of congenital prothrombotic disorders in children with peripheral venous and arterial thromboses. Methods...

...Shoshana Revel-Vilk Central venous lines are used in critically ill children and in children with chronic conditions for the administration of intravenous therapy, such as fluids, medications, total parenteral nutrition and blood products. Although the use of central venous lines has greatly...

...Mariana Bonduel; Gabriela Sciuccati; Mirta Hepner; Graciela Pieroni; Aurora Feliú Torres; Juan Pablo Frontroth; Silvia Tenembaum Over a 12-year period, 112 consecutive children with arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) and 38 children with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) were prospectively recruited...

... embolism, thrombosis recurrence, and post-thrombotic syndrome. Similarly, the best therapeutic option has not been established and in the lack of evidence-based guidelines, treatment may be extremely challenging especially in children, in whom long-term complications can be particularly disabling. 17...

... in children, the sequelae of limb thrombi are being recognized in a substantial proportion of affected children, and with varying degrees of severity. PTS is caused by both obstructed as well as refluxed venous blood flow, with combined effects of obstruction and reflux resulting in earlier, and more...

... of these cells. The purpose of this study was to assay the changes within lymphocyte populations in lymph nodes in different types of HD. The lymph nodes of 10 children with nonmalignant, reactive changes, and 31 children with HD of the following types: mixed cellularity (MC; 11 cases), nodular sclerosis (NS; 17...